somebody please help

[newbie]

i ran my savage 25 saturday night,
ran fine till i went to refuel it,
then it would start & die, then wouldn't start at all.
i ran the roto start dead then noticed the allen scews for the roto start had fell out.
is this related to it's poor running ?
is there an air leak with the roto start loose ?

i just bought a stainless steel screw kit for hpi,
does anyone if the screw kit comes with the screws for the rotostart ?
i haven't even opened it yet,
guess i will find out this week when i get time

thanks

eric

 

[SaVaGeR21]

the rotostart has nothing to do with the poor running. one suggestion was the motor overheated?? that happened to me a lot of times. also was it really cold outside?? sometimes if its too cold it will be kinda hard to start.
savager

 

[Çh®i§tiªñ]

Or, if the rotostart assembly backed off the engine enough, the one way bearring may not have been doing its job.

Was the engine turning over?

 

[newnitrofan]

Ya know I had the problem of the engine starting and dying on me, as soon as I would take off my glo igniter it would do this. I put in a new glo plug and retuned. I put the glo plug back in later and had no issues. In short I think the thing was running too lean. My 21BB seems to run between 250 to 280 and the picco seems to run between 220-250. Newbie I say check for air leaks as well. This could be half of the problem.

 

[SavageHooligan]

I also had a problem running and dying. It turned out to be a tear in my tubing (ouch! (not that tubing)) from my muffler to the gas tank. No pressure to the tank, it would simply run out of gas!

 

[highflyin]

It sound that your glow plug is bad.You should replace that and check fuel tubeing and go from there.